Showing posts with label Surviving Trades of Mumbai. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Surviving Trades of Mumbai. Show all posts
Nagindas Master Road
Surviving Trades of Mumbai: Typist
You will find him where Nagindas Master Road and Bharucha Road meet, not far from Kalaghoda.
Ibrahim Merchant Street
#WorkSpaceMumbai Bhishti (Water Carrier) with his goat skin Mashaq. More about this trade that survives in the narrow lanes of Mumbai here.
Shivaji Chowk
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Mumbai's street salt sellers haven't disappeared :)
"पहले Loose बेचते थे, अब Iodine"
Deonar Depot
A surviving STD, ISD, PCO, Local Call
telephone booth
Run by a woman
who also talks to people who come to make a call.
The callers are always talking loudly
Almost shouting like in the days when people used to wait
for it to be 9 in the night to make an important call.
The callers are mostly women here too
they carry lunch and towel in plastic bags of shops in faraway places.
Dress materials, toy shops, suiting and shirting,
sometimes discarded Jhama sweet shop bags from Chembur.
The callers discuss family problems.
Problems about money and money orders
working women who work on construction sites,
road building, cable laying,
back-breaking stone-breaking like jobs
maybe they have older daughter back home
filling her place
cooking, cleaning.
Sons who go to school to learn nothing useful.
Mothers-in-law who complain often.
Husbands who are out drinking.
The woman who runs the booth knows all their problems.
She is watching people at the bus stop without any interest.
Her ears pick up all the conversations
imagines the rest of the story,
just like me.
Off Deonar Farm Road
Shivaji. Orginally from Pandharpur, MH. Lives in Chunnabhatti and walks the streets of Mumbai playing the Shehnai, usually tunes of devotional songs to Sai Baba of Shirdi.
Here is another Shehnai player I found outside Thurbe station.
The instrument looks little but can produce a powerful sound and it's no wonder that it is the preferred instrument at noisy weddings. Only Nadaswaram, the Shehnai's cousin can produce something as powerful and that too is used to float over noisy gatherings.
Here is another Shehnai player I found outside Thurbe station.
The instrument looks little but can produce a powerful sound and it's no wonder that it is the preferred instrument at noisy weddings. Only Nadaswaram, the Shehnai's cousin can produce something as powerful and that too is used to float over noisy gatherings.
Here is the sound of trumpety thing blowing full horn from an old Tamil movie and locking horns with Yesudas. The video made by someone named Spinal Orgasmia also gives you some basic lessons of Carnatic music in a funny way. And tests the decibel levels musically. Have a listen.
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